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Return to Armageddon : the United States and the nuclear arms race, 1981-1999

Author: Ronald E Powaski
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
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During the Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations, the United States, through its victory in the Cold War, led the world away from the brink of nuclear annihilation, and then slowly became aware of the increased threat of nuclear confrontation in a world more splintered than ever before.
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Powaski, Ronald E.
Return to Armageddon.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000
(DLC) 99019999
(OCoLC)40890993
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Ronald E Powaski
ISBN: 1423741102 9781423741107 9780195103823 0195103823 9780195355963 0195355962 1280452498 9781280452499
OCLC Number: 191951492
Description: 1 online resource (xi, 294 pages)
Contents: The reagan nuclear buildup --
The Reagan about-face --
Bush and start I --
Bush and start II --
Clinton, start II, and the ABM treaty --
Clinton and counterproliferation --
Conclusion: the enduring nuclear threat.
Responsibility: Ronald E. Powaski.

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